Hundreds of thousands of soldiers comprise the armies of the United States and Confederate States combined. Battle wounds, illnesses, despair, loneliness, and other ailments often characterize the lives of soldiers who are fortunate enough to have survived the war thus far. And hovering above all is the ever-present cloud of homesickness. Left to fend for…
The Civil War era bisects the early decades of expanding Baptist scholarship North and South. Higher educational opportunities for Baptists of the North were introduced with the founding of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1764, after which more Baptists institutions, both North and South, were birthed in the early nineteenth century. By the…
Confederate leaders’ mounting fears of insurrection find evidence in the activities of Newton (“Newt”) Knight (1837-1922), Primitive Baptist and Unionist in Mississippi. Knight is leader of the Knight Company, a group of Confederate Army deserters and Confederate dis-loyalists who banded together in late 1863 to form the “Free State of Jones” in the Mississippi counties…